The war does not stop the growth of the United States. Western railroad expansion continues, empowered by the Pacific Railroad Act enacted on July 1. The Act grants land and loans to railroad companies in order to connect the Midwest with California by rail. The westward march of the railroad is now underway, employing thousands…
Today Kentucky’s Campbell County Association of Baptists gather at the Baptist Church at Licking. The association meeting lasts for three days. Much of the talk is about missionary work, and in particular, home missions. The associational missionary reports one baptism for the past twelve months, compared to eighteen the prior year. In assessing the downtown,…
California Republican Cornelius Cole, reflecting on U.S. President Abraham Lincoln‘s frequent use of humor, relates the following story told by Lincoln, a former Baptist: “That in early times there were only three churches in Springfield, the Methodist, Presbyterian and Baptist, all orthodox, when suddenly there came along a smart young Universalist minister and began to…